Recaps

Qu Jianlei and the True Venerables explored the Tree Race and Insect Race conflict, secured an Innate Dao Talisman, and negotiated with the Star Tapirs. The arc left them pursuing a newly discovered opportunity after finding destructive Origin inside a Red Giant.

• Qu Jianlei, True Venerable Min Ning, and True Immortal Jin Ge entered the Tree Race World, investigated the war between the Tree Race and Insects, and withdrew after divining danger.
• Min Ning and Jin Ge led a sweep against Alien Race Forests, while Digital Phantom returned to the empire with new Calculation Units and its debts reduced.
• Qu Jianlei’s group joined True Venerable Han Li and True Venerable Wen Xian, then found and secured an Innate Dao Talisman in Insect Race territory.
• The group raided Insect Race planets, discovered an ancient spearhead in a temple, and Qu Jianlei used the Dao Stele to suppress the divine sense of a powerful wasp.
• In Mò Race territory, the cultivators encountered Star Tapir Great Venerable and negotiated with its allies for information about opportunities.
• The humans and Star Tapirs investigated a Red Giant, where Wen Xian, Min Ning, and Han Li worked together while Qu Jianlei searched for the opportunity.
• Jin Ge confronted Star Tapir Great Venerable Laru during the stellar eruption, while Min Ning met Great Venerable Lajan and the groups continued searching.
• Qu Jianlei divined an opportunity and Min Ning retrieved bluish-white Origin, which Han Li identified as a destructive form of the Source of Fire before taking the group toward the next opportunity.

Han Li’s group pursued opportunities, clashed with the Tree and Insect Races, and negotiated with the Star Tapirs over their growing war with the Insectoids. After a costly alliance secured the Primordial Purple Qi, the group killed several Out-of-Body Insectoids and learned that the Insect Race had a Half-Step Soul Division expert.

• Han Li’s group caught Latan with the Disaster Fire, forced it to compensate them, and divided the recovered opportunities before extracting further payments from the Star Tapir tribes.
• Han Li and the others attacked Tree Race territory and then joined the Star Tapirs against the Insect Race, but the Star Tapirs destroyed an opportunity while breaking the Mother Tree’s formation.
• The five cultivators pursued Latan’s final opportunity, killed an Out-of-Body Katydid, and captured Primordial Gangyuan from a dangerous Star Cluster before ending their cooperation with the Star Tapirs.
• Han Li’s group continued striking Insect Nests and destroying Mantis temples, then learned that the Insect Race had retaliated against the Star Tapirs for capturing prisoners.
• Lajan’s people offered Primordial Purple Qi in exchange for help against an Insect Race invasion, and Qu Jianlei disrupted the attacking formation as the cultivators and Star Tapirs joined the battle.
• The allies defeated three Out-of-Body Insectoids, but the Star Tapirs and cultivators disputed how dormant enemies counted toward their agreement before the Mò Race delivered the Heaven-Mending Stone containing the Purple Qi.
• Qu Jianlei, Min Ning, Jin Ge, and the Star Tapirs hunted Insectoids, killed the Mantis with Broken Axe, and erased the Flying Ant and its forces with Starlight Kill.
• Qu Jianlei searched the Mantis’s soul and reported that Insectoids could imitate a Half-Step Soul Division’s aura, leading Han Li to ask whether the Insect Race had a Soul Division expert.

The Five-Person Group fought alongside the Star Tapirs, then uncovered a secret alliance between the Tree Race and Insect Race centered on locusts cultivating the Incense Divinity Path. They destroyed the alliance’s strongholds and left after fulfilling their agreement, while the consequences of the final blast and the Heavenly Dao’s rejection remained uncertain.

• Han Li and the Five-Person Group left the Tapir Race’s war effort, but later agreed to help the Mò Race and Star Tapirs hold a battlefield against the Insect Race.
• The Insect Race unleashed a Divine Descent that devastated the battlefield, after which Qu Jianlei and the group negotiated compensation and refused to join further large-scale wars.
• Qu Jianlei discovered that Tree Race locusts were serving with the Insect Race, captured several, and had Wind Forgotten examine them.
• Wind Forgotten uncovered a Mother Tree’s secret bargain with the Golden Scarab Great Venerable, but the two Out of Body beings discovered and restrained it.
• Qu Jianlei used Moment Eternal and Broken Axe to drive off the Mother Tree and Golden Scarab projections, then Han Li, Min Ning, and Jin Ge arrived to investigate the locusts.
• The Five-Person Group attacked the Mother Tree’s planet, where Qu Jianlei detonated three Flawed Portable Abodes and killed the Out of Body Mother Tree.
• The group destroyed the Golden Scarab’s temple and remains, then detonated seven Portable Abodes near two Mother Trees and two Insect Race experts, killing the Mother Trees and possibly eliminating or incapacitating the Yin and Yang Butterflies.
• Jin Ge declared that the cultivators had fulfilled their agreement and refused Lata’s offer to spare five Out-of-Body beings in exchange for a damaged Black Flag Spirit Treasure.

Qu Jianlei and his companions returned from the void with treasures and began preparing for his Out-of-Body breakthrough, while tensions with Lingyun Sect and the Shi Family grew. Han Li and Qu Jianlei explored Lingyun’s secret realm with Qingkong, then returned to Cangwu, where Qingkong offered to help Qu Jianlei advance.

• Wen Xian brought the trial cultivators back from the Mò Race, and Lajan joined the Five-Person Group’s search in exchange for the damaged Spirit Treasure flag.
• Qu Jianlei gained a Creation and Destruction opportunity, and the group hunted Out-of-Body beings before returning with treasures that Qu Jianlei divided modestly.
• Qu Jianlei returned to Houde and prepared for seclusion, but Han Li advised him to remain active while suppressing his breakthrough and let the otherworld situation develop.
• Xiang Xue and Claire sold rare goods in Yanfeng Three, where the Shi Family harassed them until Mu Guang confronted the family and Qu Jianlei forced a settlement.
• Han Li and Qu Jianlei went with Jin Ge to the Forgotten Peninsula, where they entered Lingyun’s Erosion Array and discovered a secret realm linked to numerous worlds.
• Qingkong revealed himself as the Seven-Colored Butterfly and bargained with Han Li and Qu Jianlei over realm traits, while Qu Jianlei challenged Lingyun’s claims to the secret realm.
• Bai Qiao urged Han Li to address the otherworld expedition, but Qu Jianlei refused Lingyun’s protection and chose to remain in Cangwu.
• Qu Jianlei considered advancing in a Small World, but Han Li advised against it, and Qingkong appeared and offered to help him reach the Out-of-Body Realm.